Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Suffolk

Lead Software Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Suffolk is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £77,500 £81,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% +35.42% -23.57%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Suffolk with a recognized job title 520 400 191
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.04% 93.68% 83.41%
Number of salaries quoted 211 227 108
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,300 £21,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,629 £26,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £44,375
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -9.86% -4.05%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,000 £80,250
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +4.37%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings that featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Suffolk

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for Lead Software Engineer job vacancies in Suffolk.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Software Engineer job vacancies in Suffolk

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 22 August 2025, Lead Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Suffolk region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform